The Anarchic Spirit

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A bold, urgent and deeply creative book, Adams reimagines the Bible for a world in crisis. For readers committed to challenging empire, exclusion and systems of control, this work offers a compelling vision of an anarchic Spirit opening fresh, risky pathways toward justice, hope and renewed forms of community. -- Dr Robert Beckford Creative, daring and fearlessly disruptive, The Anarchic Spirit reimagines faith for an age of crisis. Graham Adams writes with prophetic fire and poetic depth, unsettling easy certainties while opening bold new possibilities for Scripture, community and hope. This is theology at its most urgent, imaginative and transformative - a book that refuses complacency and demands engagement. -- Eleazar S. Fernandez This book is an embodiment of the tradition it draws from: the long and creative anarchist tradition of Christian thought, which thinks with, through and beyond the crises of each generation. It helps us to look dominating power in the face and to refuse it permanence, disobeying the fatalism such false spirits seek to induce. In its place, it invokes a Spirit able to handle the messiness of things - identities, powers, fears and hopes, texts and traditions - and to treat the diseases that threaten life in all its forms. -- Anna Rowlands Embodying the creative anarchist tradition of Christian thought, this book helps us to face dominating power and refuse it permanence. It disobeys the fatalism such spirits seek to induce, invoking instead a Spirit able to handle the messiness of identities, hopes and texts - and to treat the diseases that threaten life itself. -- Anna Rowlands